Where is Optimism in Your Empowerment Kit? 7 Ideas to Build Optimism, Possibility, and Resilience Recently, I coached a woman in a leadership role who was dealing with a change in her employment status. It was not a change she wanted. She felt stuck and fearful about...
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Build on Strengths or Fix What’s Wrong? “If positive psychology teaches us anything, it is that all of us are a mixture of strengths and weaknesses. No one has it all, and no one lacks it all.” -Christopher Peterson Do you put a greater...
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Life’s Small Pleasures and Joyful Moments “It’s so much easier to learn to love what you have instead of yearning always for what you’re missing, or what you imagine you’re missing. It’s so much more peaceful.” – Anna Quindlen, One True Thing...
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Gratitude Practices to Build Happiness and Well-Being With fall arriving and the changing of the seasons, I have been thinking a lot about gratitude. The Harvard Mental Health Letter defines gratitude as “a thankful appreciation for what an individual receives,...
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